Google Reader

Let me say I love Google Reader!!

My main new year's resoloution was to become a little more organized with my online tools, the blog, the fb posts, and the tweets.

I've been finding so many great flower shop blogs to read, but I've also been stumbling across a lot of fantastic, creative crafting blogs!

My background pretty much started with crafting. Being the daughter of a professional crafter (Yes my mother made a career of it!) I would spend a large number of summer weekends traveling across the midwest to craft shows with mom to help sell her handmade items. I was very lucky to have a mom that encouraged creativity from a very young age -- look where it got me! Doing what I love, everday!

I also worked for both Ben Franklin Crafts and Hobby Lobby which allowed me access to the newest craft trends on the market. I also had the best teachers while working retail in arts and crafts, the customers!!

I learned so much from customers looking for a certain product or purchasing something to finish up a project. They'd tell me what they were doing and then how to do it and voila - I could add another project to my craft recipe box! If I had a question, I knew which customer to ask so next time they'd come in I'd fire away.

So that brings me to Google Reader. With all these blogs I was trying to follow, I felt overwhelmed stashing them all in my "Favorites" folder online and trying to read each one and remember which ones I had looked at recently for updates.

Hello Good Reader! It's so awesome because I can put all my favorite blogs/websites/facebook pages/twitter pages into it and it keeps me posted when new info is posted. It's kind of like your own personlized, online library that stocks only books that you enjoy and you can go "check them out" whenver you want!

Just today I found this website: www.dollarstorecrafts.com

Great site - great ideas - great price!! Who doesn't love The Dollar Tree and the amazing things you can find their for projects.

From that site I found such blogs and sites as Curbly, ShannonMakesStuff, and MuffinTinMom.

I hope you all enjoy reading them as much as I do!

Keep crafting!